MSc OT 🎓in ED recovery (currently winning 💪🏻although not every day🤯) aspiring poet (trying) writing for recovery, trauma, women’s mental health 💕🌈
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Nat (OT inpatient M/H acute stepdown & rehab) retweeted
Understanding mental health, identity, roles and occupation through the eyes of our artists @WeareGuildLodge. A fabulous co-produced exhibition @ArtHaworth . Amazing contributions from both service users and staff. @MakingArtMarks @RCOT_MH
Nat (OT inpatient M/H acute stepdown & rehab) retweeted
And what does this mean when leaving the ward?
1 - People might be disregulated BECAUSE of the chaos, hierarchy, scrutiny, absence of privacy etc. Removing them from that is an intervention.
2 - We might not want to replicate those features of a hospital in the community.
The way someone behaves on an inpatient psychiatric ward is not representative of how/ who they are at home/ supermarket/ community - as my OT colleagues have taught me the environment is a major factor in itself that makes people behave/ respond a certain way #rehabpsych
Nat (OT inpatient M/H acute stepdown & rehab) retweeted
them: have you tried using a planner?
me: um, yeah. I already own like 47 planners.
...
also me: [buys another planner]
Nat (OT inpatient M/H acute stepdown & rehab) retweeted
Who wouldn't want to drop in for a chat with me about my role and all the fabulous stuff I get to do?! 😁 @UoL_OT @LincsCommHealth @LincsAHPs
Nat (OT inpatient M/H acute stepdown & rehab) retweeted
There are just 2 weeks left to apply for a bursary to attend the @rcpsychEDFac conference on 12-13/11/2024.
•Medical students
•Foundation Year doctors (FY1-2)
•psychiatric trainees (CT1-3 &ST4-6)
& people with lived experience.
Nat (OT inpatient M/H acute stepdown & rehab) retweeted
I am still looking for participants to take part in my thesis. If you are a psychologist or psychotherapist with experience of working with individuals who have engaged in stalking behaviours with comorbid mental health please see the ad below #dclin #thesis #stalking
Nat (OT inpatient M/H acute stepdown & rehab) retweeted
Pleased to see laxatives sales being limited to Over 18s only, and only a single pack at a time.
Small steps to making the world a slightly safer place for people with eating disorders.
Great to see shops taking this seriously, especially with harm laxative abuse can do.
Nat (OT inpatient M/H acute stepdown & rehab) retweeted
I was deliberating taking part in the mum’s race #sportsday
Uphill & grass in a wheelchair isn’t easy 🙈
I did it and look at this for support
🥰😲👇🏻
#JustDoIt
♿️ doesn’t have to mean you must ‘sit out’
My heart melted when my daughter said she was proud #last ❤️
Nat (OT inpatient M/H acute stepdown & rehab) retweeted
Thank you to all the hard work from @RCOTWalesRegion bringing together a great event at USW yesterday. I feel better informed & better able to join and articulate the conversation around #EBD It was great sensing the real community between #occupationaltherapy educators Wales too
Nat (OT inpatient M/H acute stepdown & rehab) retweeted
"She wants more support for women who have suffered birth trauma, postnatal depression or any perinatal mental health complications...And for every mother ...to be able to access the mental health support they need." Well said, Louise Thompson. womenshealthmag.com/uk/healt…
Nat (OT inpatient M/H acute stepdown & rehab) retweeted
The paperback of Matrescence is here! Out June 6. It looks mint.
Details/preorder: penguin.co.uk/books/443864/m…
Upcoming events: Hay June 1, Basingstoke June 29, public lecture at LSE in July (details tc), Matrescence festival in Exeter, @endoftheroad.
Nat (OT inpatient M/H acute stepdown & rehab) retweeted
doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2023.0… ‘When mh SU’s are told they have capacity to end their life, and healthcare is withheld from them, not only does this risk their life, it erodes their self worth and value, inducing a deeply damaging sense of being undeserving of care and compassion’
Nat (OT inpatient M/H acute stepdown & rehab) retweeted
So pleased to see this study make it to print - the participants words certainly resonated with us and we hope they will with others #HigherEd #psychosis doi.org/10.1080/0164212X.202…
Nat (OT inpatient M/H acute stepdown & rehab) retweeted
Journal club 📚 🧵
"Terminal Anorexia Nervosa (T-AN) may not be terminal," reveals a new empirical study, challenging assumptions and offering hope.
Data over opinions! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@morganlrobison
@FSUPsychology #AnorexiaRecovery
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202…
Nat (OT inpatient M/H acute stepdown & rehab) retweeted
Dear Rachel
There will be days when you think about #selfharm and #suicide; being discharged from hospital doesn't just erase that.
There will be days when #mentalillness is the only focus. When #mentalhealth feels so so far away.
There will be days, weeks, when it feels like you are surfing wave after wave after wave. You feel like you are drowning.
There will be days when drowning feels like the only option there is.
There will be days when you want to give up. Days when you do give up.
But on those days you have to look at pictures or create mental images.
Remind yourself that even a hard day can have beautiful moments.
Your niece playing with your puppy. A beautiful sky. Flowers. A beach. A mountain. Or simply a hill.
Those moments are what makes life worth living.
Keep living. Keep going.
To all my fellow 'Rachel's' finding life uncertain right now, I wish you all the moments in the world. All the inner peace. It's out there. We just have to look a little harder than anyone else. Hold onto it a little longer.
#SuicidePrevention
#MentalHealthMatters
#MadTwitter
Nat (OT inpatient M/H acute stepdown & rehab) retweeted
“There is a wealth of evidence to suggest that the Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD, or similar Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder, EUPD) construct is harmful.”
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.co…
Nat (OT inpatient M/H acute stepdown & rehab) retweeted
'Blank face observations' reminiscent of Tronick's 'still face experiment' -the lack of response causing babies to become angry, confused, care-seekin and near catatonic before giving up. There are effects even from one go that can be picked up in stress response months later.
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Nat (OT inpatient M/H acute stepdown & rehab) retweeted
10 days left 👇
We need your views to define and shape our new UK AHP public health strategy which will be published early 2025.
Please complete this short survey and share with your colleagues:
Link: forms.office.com/e/t8LcvxsZV…
Closing date: 18:00 on 19th April
@AHPs4PH @WeAHPs
Nat (OT inpatient M/H acute stepdown & rehab) retweeted
The label of BPD delegitimises our words and acts, such that actions are read as not genuine, manipulative and behavioural. Here an example of how such backstage borderline talk operates courtesy of nurses response to the young woman who wants to die by suicide MT @SurvivorsNotPD
ALT I'll have to admit, my very US perspective on BPD has me feeling cynical about this whole article. First, they put the psychiatrist's words about things never getting better in quotes, but it doesn't seem that they ever actually ascribe the quote as coming straight from the psychiatrist to the reporter. It seems to come through the patient, which makes me wonder if that's actually what was said or if she possibly twisted the words. I just can't see a psychiatrist telling a patient that unless they're awful at their job. And if she has BPD like she says, then look how much attention she's getting for making the decision to not continue living. I personally wonder if she's even planning on going through with it.